Letter From the Editors

FEATURED NEWS STORIES

Experts Assess Results of ‘War on Terror’

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Politics

The Reluctant Official
Yevgeny Zinichev, Emergency Situations Minister and Putin Associate, Dies in Accident During Training

Elections

Russians Say They Are Being Forced to Vote in Elections, This Time Online (Read this article online for FREE)

Critics Say New Online Voting System Makes Coercion, Fraud Even Easier

Regions

Sergei Shoigu: ‘We Are Talking About a Decades- Long Development Program for the Siberian Region’
Sergei Shoigu Discusses Plans to Build Cities, Develop Economy in Siberia

Demography

Demography on the Cusp of Depopulation
Russian Academy Issues Dire Warning as Population Decline Continues

OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES

Belarus

Gathering Speed
Putin, Lukashenko Announce Finalization of 28 Union State Programs After Three Years of Work

Ukraine

Visit of Unfulfilled Expectations
Pogrebinsky: US-Ukraine Talks Are Another Step Toward Ukraine’s Loss of Sovereignty

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

World Politics

South Asian Overheating: Record U.S. Losses in Afghanistan and American Indifference to Ukraine
Zhurabayev: US Resources Freed by Withdrawal From Afghanistan Must Now Go to Ukraine

Iran

Why Is Iran Toughening Up?
Maryasov: Raisi Beefs Up Anti-Western Stance as Impasse on JCPOA Persists